Re:search - art collaboration between Australia and Japan
26 Nov-25 Dec 2006, Sendai
Organisational partners:
Experimenta, Melbourne
Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
Artists: Craig Walsh, Alex Davies, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Lieko Shiga, The Sine Wave Orchestra and Norimichi Hirakawa
Curators: Caroline Farmer & Kento Shimizu
An exhibition of new site-specific media
Have all modern cities become standardised and formulaic?
What is it that makes a place tick?
Re:search - art collaboration between Australia and Japan opened on 26th November at Sendai Mediatheque, Japan. The exhibition of new site-specific works by four Australian and three Japanese media artists is the result of a collaborative project between Sendai Mediatheque (SMT) and Melbourne-based Experimenta for the 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange.
Each artist responds to the constructed environment, the natural environment and the social and cultural context utilizing high definition video, video projection and photography, electromagnetic field recordings, multichannel sound and other interactive screen-based media.
Through his or her different artistic practice each artist expresses what is unique and ideal about the local, in this case Sendai, in the face of the global homogeneity of the modern city. They reveal aspects, which usually go unnoticed, that are just beneath the surface of Sendai; a thriving cultural hub that is the precinct's capital and two hours north of Tokyo.
In this exhibition the audience becomes integral in the experience of capturing the vibrancy and dynamism of the city's energy: the private and communal spaces that make it unique.
More details, artist biographies and images of the artists' previous works
Organisational partners:
Experimenta, Melbourne
Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai
Artists: Craig Walsh, Alex Davies, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Lieko Shiga, The Sine Wave Orchestra and Norimichi Hirakawa
Curators: Caroline Farmer & Kento Shimizu
An exhibition of new site-specific media
Have all modern cities become standardised and formulaic?
What is it that makes a place tick?
Re:search - art collaboration between Australia and Japan opened on 26th November at Sendai Mediatheque, Japan. The exhibition of new site-specific works by four Australian and three Japanese media artists is the result of a collaborative project between Sendai Mediatheque (SMT) and Melbourne-based Experimenta for the 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange.
Each artist responds to the constructed environment, the natural environment and the social and cultural context utilizing high definition video, video projection and photography, electromagnetic field recordings, multichannel sound and other interactive screen-based media.
Through his or her different artistic practice each artist expresses what is unique and ideal about the local, in this case Sendai, in the face of the global homogeneity of the modern city. They reveal aspects, which usually go unnoticed, that are just beneath the surface of Sendai; a thriving cultural hub that is the precinct's capital and two hours north of Tokyo.
In this exhibition the audience becomes integral in the experience of capturing the vibrancy and dynamism of the city's energy: the private and communal spaces that make it unique.
More details, artist biographies and images of the artists' previous works
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| Craig Walsh, Big in Japan (2006) (Image courtesy Sendai Mediatheque) |
David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, |
This exhibition was supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts, through the Community Partnerships and Market Development Division.